Marianna Villano is Associate Professor of chemical engineering at the Department of Chemistry- Sapienza University of Rome. She got the Master of Science (summa cum laude) in Industrial Chemistry (2007) and the PhD in Industrial Chemical Processes (2011) defending the thesis “Microbially catalyzed production of hydrogen and methane in bioelectrochemical systems". In 2010 she spent six months at the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering-Cornell University (Ithaca, NY, USA) as a visiting PhD student. Member of the editorial board of the Journals: Scientific Reports (Springer Nature); Processes (MDPI); Environments (MDPI). She is author of more than 40 international peer-review journal publications, including one Higly Cited Paper (WoS Clarivate Analytics); 5 book chapter; and over 50 presentations to international conferences